Priorities releases Romney, Ryan tax rate ad

By Maggie Haberman

08/17/12 11:44 AM EDT

Priorities USA Action, the pro-President Obama super PAC, is first up with a spot based around Mitt Romney's comments yesterday on the tax rate he's paid — and tethering it to the 1 percent rate he'd pay under running mate Paul Ryan's budget.

The visuals are Romney walking off a jet, and Romney and Ryan looking at each other on stage, framed by a heart.

"If they win, the middle class loses," the narrator says, after reminding the viewer that Romney is worth $200 million.

This is the first ad from Priorities in awhile that hasn't been focused around Bain Capital (we've written a bunch about the controversial ad that tethered Romney to the death of the wife of a former steelworker whose plant was shuttered by Bain) and it presses a line of attack that Chicago also sought to keep capitalizing on this morning.